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Quotes About Wealth

I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
What good is my parents' wealth and education and upbringing if I'm not contributing to the world?
~ Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Men kill for many reasons, they steal but for one-greed.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
Don't aim for riches, child. Aim for happiness." -Mrs. Mills
~ Sharon M. Draper
Donovan Beaudry rolled his window down; ear-splittingly loud rap music exploded from the truck's custom-installed sound gear. The SUV rolled on twenty-four-inch dubs and sported a shiny set of Sprewells that Justin knew cost around $2,000 a set. The hubcaps continued to spin even after the car came to a stop. He didn't even want to think about how Donovan could have paid for all that.
~ Sharon M. Draper
where did I think the rich got their money but from everyone else?
~ Sharon Olds
You must welcome bounty whenever it comes, hunti man. It is often inconvenient. But if you insist on accepting it only when it suits your schedule, you will find yourself very poor.
~ Sharon Shinn
Protecting what we have makes us stingy and closed. When we don't have much or hold what we have loosely, we discover the self-perpetuating joy of being content—and generous—with very little.
~ Shaunti Feldhahn
Give me a BLACK AND WHITE MOVIE Where you know what's what. The good guys get love, The bad guys get shot, The rich girl's cold, The poor girl's not.
~ Sheila Davis
Before her body is found floating in her Jacuzzi, publicist to the stars Lindsey Alexander had few friends, but plenty of lovers. To her ex-friend Claudia, she was a ruthless, backstabbing manipulator. But even Claudia is shocked by Lindsey's startling final note: It was fun while it lasted.
~ Sheila Lowe
If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell.
~ Sheldon Adelson
The Republican Party is not, as advertised, conservative but radically oligarchical. Programmatically it exists to advance corporate economic and political interests, and to protect and promote inequalities of opportunity and wealth.
~ Sheldon S. Wolin
I think there should be an Occupy Gallifrey. Because 0.000001% of the people have 99.99999% of the Time.
~ Neil Gaiman
Man I can't even count all of these hundreds Duffle bag every time I go to SunTrust
~ Nicki Minaj
As I have been arguing for a long time now, there is a real need not simply for a political economy of wealth but also for a political economy of speed.
~ Paul Virilio
A lot of people have it - that fantasy of being lord or lady of the manor, either in the present or at some time in history.
~ Penelope Keith
There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously.
~ Pope Francis
Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.
~ Ovid
Only in time of peace can the wastes of capitalism be tolerated.
~ F. R. Scott
Long time ago when we were fab, back when income tax was all we had.
~ George Harrison
If you loose your time, you cannot get mony nor gaine.
~ George Herbert
'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.
~ Henry Rollins
Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears.
~ James De La Vega
Americans took a great deal too much credit for creating wealth, when most of the time they had really just been living off natural bounty unprecedented in the history of the world.
~ Jane Smiley